Old Kent Road Archives - Brockley SE4

Critical Mass mark killing of cyclist on Old Kent Road.

Dec

5

2025

Hundreds of cyclists rode down Old Kent Road and New Cross Road last week (Friday 28 November 2025) as part of the monthly Critical Mass ride. Critical Mass is a monthly bike ride on the last Friday in over 300 cities, started in 1992 and in London in 1994, to highlight bike-unfriendly cities. With no formal ...

Critical Mass mark killing of cyclist on Old Kent Road.

Dec

5

2025

Hundreds of cyclists rode down Old Kent Road and New Cross Road last week (Friday 28 November 2025) as part of the monthly Critical Mass ride. Critical Mass is a monthly bike ride on the last Friday in over 300 cities, started in 1992 and in London in 1994, to highlight bike-unfriendly cities. With no formal ...

Miners strike benefits 1984: Deptford, Woolwich, Old Kent Road with Test Dept, The Mekons and more

Sep

27

2025

There were many fundraising gigs in support of the miners during their 1984/85 strike, including across SE London. One of the most musically significant took place at the Albany in Deptford in September 1984 where Test Dept played with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir - starting a strong relationship between the two that led ...

Miners strike benefits 1984: Deptford, Woolwich, Old Kent Road with Test Dept, The Mekons and more

Sep

27

2025

There were many fundraising gigs in support of the miners during their 1984/85 strike, including across SE London. One of the most musically significant took place at the Albany in Deptford in September 1984 where Test Dept played with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir - starting a strong relationship between the two that led ...

Miners strike benefits 1984: Deptford, Woolwich, Old Kent Road with Test Dept, The Mekons and more

Sep

27

2025

There were many fundraising gigs in support of the miners during their 1984/85 strike, including across SE London. One of the most musically significant took place at the Albany in Deptford in September 1984 where Test Dept played with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir - starting a strong relationship between the two that led ...

Hitler hanged and burned: VE Day in South London 1945

May

11

2025

The end of war in Europe was celebrated with several days of relieved VE (Victory in Europe) celebrations across Britain in May 1945. In South London as in many other areas this includes bonfires, parties and singing in the streets. On the Old Kent Road there were 'groups of people singing round pianos on the ...

South London Gas Protests 1936

Oct

25

2022

Unaffordable gas prices... boycotts... mass protests. Yes all this was happening not just now but back in 1936. The South Metropolitan Gas Company in the Old Kent Road supplied gas across South London and in that year brought in a new scale of charges which critics argued meant that the 'poor are to pay more ...

Fenton Ogbogbo- murdered by racists in the Old Kent Road, 1981

Apr

10

2021

Fenton Ogbogbo was a 25 year old man who was murdered in a racist attack on the Old Kent Road in June 1981. Three white youths aged 15 to 17 from the Peckham area were jailed at 'Her Majesty’s pleasure' in a trial at the Old Bailey in the following year. The court heard that on ...

Music Monday: Anarcho punk 1984 in New Cross & Old Kent Road

Jan

25

2016

'Not Just Bits of Paper', edited by Tony Bull and Mickey Penguin is 'A series of recollections, memories, imagined dreams perhaps from the collective memories of those who lived through the punk and anarcho-punk years' of the 1980s (available from Situation Books). It includes lots of flyers and other 'ephemera' and I noticed these two ...

Bob’s Abandoned Bike Shop on the Old Kent Road

Apr

15

2014

These empty shop fronts on the Old Kent Road (opposite Asylum Road, near to Toys R Us) have been decorated with signs saying 'Untitled Ltd' and 'Bob's Abandoned Bike Shop'. The typography makes me suspect that the artist Bob & Roberta Smith may have been involved, but I may be wrong - anyone know anymore?

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